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Received: 1 July 2017

Accepted: 18 January 2018

First Online: 31 January 2018

Authors’ information

: All authors are physicians working at the Medical Center - University Freiburg, Germany. TH, RD, DE and US are resident physicians; BB is a consultant physician. DH is a senior physician at the Institute of Virology. SR is the chief physician at the Department of Neurology and Neurophysiology. OS is a senior physician at the Department of Neurology and Neurophysiology. JT and NV are senior physicians at the Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology.

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: TH received travel grants from Bayer Vital GmbH and Novartis. RD, DE, and US report no conflicts of interest for this study. BB received travel grants and/or training expenses from Bayer Vital GmbH, Ipsen Pharma GmbH, Norvartis, and Genzyme, as well as lecture fees from Ipsen Pharma GmbH. DH received lecture fees from Serion. OS and SR report receiving consulting and lecture fees, grant, and research support from Baxter, Bayer Vital GmbH, Biogen Idec, Genzyme, Merck Serono, Novartis, RG, Sanofi-Aventis, and Teva. SR indicates that he is a founding executive board member of ravo Diagnostika GmbH (Oltmannsstrasse 5, D-79100 Freiburg, Germany), which sells in-vitro diagnostic medical devices for the detection of infectious diseases and paraneoplastic autoantibodies. JT and NV have served on the advisory boards of, have participated in lectures for, and/or received research or travel grants from AbbVie, GSK, Janssen-Cilag, Lilly, Medac, Novartis, Pfizer, and Roche.

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